This California master pares things down to a narrow set of parameters within which he finds extraordinary richness. Maria Porges reflects on how his approach to clay borrows from his parallel enterprise as a musician.

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In the April 1973 Craft Horizons, Allan Peterson wrote about Albert Paley's outsized jewelry, the focus of his early career. Christine Kaminsky documents the Rochester artist's subsequent achievements in monumental sculptural and architectural metalwork and the recognition it has brought him over more than three decades.